What up family, welcome to episode 271 of The Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugovier, filmmaker, Holden Sizer, and I'm a New York Times best-selling

author.

I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices, including what we

eat and how we live.

Effect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, and our health span and risk

for disease.

This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a

genius.

Guys, I'm super excited for today's episode of the show, in which I welcome Dr. Robert

Waldinger.

Dr. Waldinger is a badass.

He's not just a Zen priest, which we are going to talk about.

First Zen priest, I've ever had a conversation with, I don't know about you, but he is a psychiatrist

and a professor who leads the Harvard study of adult development, the longest running

scientific study on happiness.

He's the author of the new book The Good Life, Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific

Study of Happiness, in which he explores the impact of our relationships among other variables

on health and well-being.

What you are going to get from this episode is the rundown of the results of this study,

the longest study of adult development, and what they show us about living a good life.

You're going to hear about why loneliness is a health risk factor that rivals smoking

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